Tools for left hookers
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Original Poster:

960 posts

5 months

So for those who are left handed myself included how do you get on with tools designed for right handed people?

Do you just make the best of it and use them anyway, did you become ambidextrous or hunt out a left handed versions?

One I hadn't twigged was a standard deburring tool is actually handed and typically right handed, after messing up a couple of 3d prints I realised this little fact, haven't decided whether spending £20+VAT & postage for some special tips and 'binning' the ones that came with it is worth it yet.

Tango13

9,740 posts

195 months

I used to work with a bloke that had a left handed digital vernier and a left handed 0~25mm micrometer, the barrel on the micrometer worked on a left handed thread too!

It's worth getting some L/H de-burring tips, life is far too short to be faffing about with the wrong tools.